Wilder Voice Press is Oberlin College's student-run press, best-known for its publication of creative nonfiction and long-form journalism. Wilder Voice was founded in 2005. We also publish chapbooks, artist's books, and other literary mania. We even plan events.

If you are interested in joining the staff of Wilder Voice or Wilder Voice Press you can reach us at contact@wildervoice.org. Below are links to PDF files of our past issues.

Volume 12, Issue 23
Spring 2017

Includes: Snapshots of Molly Bryson’s dad; AA Adler’s letter on love sans sex; Elly Higgins’ meditations on body and identity; Izzie Levinson on community organization in the Trump era; Dmitri Lee on authority and obedience in the South Korean military; Lily Jones on leaving her twin; Giulia Chiappetta’s grandmother; a second generation Japanese-American during World War II; Isaac Chabon’s mediations of the nite and in nite; Ellie Tremayne’s rooms, representations, and realities; stories from Fiona Doherty and Zach Owings; and the poetry of Andrés Emil González and Mary Lilith Fischer.

Volume 12, Issue 22
Fall 2016

Includes: Izzie Levinson on the presidential election, Amanda Leopold on Brandy Melville and gender performance, Olivia Pandol on Edmonia Lewis, Sylvie Florman on her mother’s journals, Leah Cohen on higher education in South Africa, Heidi Yarger on weed trimming, S. Maxwell Van Cooper on searching for yellow, Leah Newman’s plastic paradise, the living sculptures of Zoe Schlanger, a story from Jesse Arnholz, and the poetry of Emma March & Mac Maclean.

Volume 11, Issue 21
Spring 2016

Includes: A history of the Volkswagen Beetle, the life of Suzanne Cesaire, a meditation on the Migrant Crisis in Germany, a lyric essay on the Dark Night of the Soul, the exotic animal escape of Zanesville, a personal connection to Flint, and addiction recovery.

Includes: Mexico-US border history, death tourism in Germany, the workers unions of Oberlin, diaglogues on gender identity on campus, the intersection race and enviornmental justice, information on unnecessary Cesarean sections and gestures in the digital age.

A double-sided fold-out poster on newsprint, featuring diagrams and text by Nolan Boomer and Paolo Yumol on crowd dynamics.

Volume 10, Issue 19
Spring 2015

Includes: The state of sex education, the spatial politics of Copenhagen, the Dirty Wars, Oberlin's feral cats, Mexican-American food politics, reactions to Milton, and a photo-interview with survivors of the genocide in Guatemala.